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Rethinking Toleration: Wesley, Whitefield and Evangelical Collaboration in the Eighteenth Century
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract There is a growing body of scholarship on the history of religious toleration; nevertheless, historians have largely treated toleration as a matter of governmental policy and legal principle. This article broadens that account by examining John Wesley and George Whitefield's vision of evangelical unity across denominational lines.
Sarah Irving‐Stonebraker
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Significant Far‐Right Challenges to Australian Society? The XYZ and AustraliaOne
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars who analyse the Australian far‐right from a criminological or security studies perspective propose that activists and groups pose ‘political’ challenges to Australian society. This paper examines the far‐right news website The XYZ and the AustraliaOne political party, and argues that claims that the far‐right may normalise ...
Timothy Lynch
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DRAMA EXISTENŢEI ŞI INCOMUNICABILITATEA ÎN TEATRUL ABSURDULUI
Studia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte Umanistice, 2012 The article analyses the specific of the Theatre of Absurd, phenomenon in the world dramaturgy from the 2nd half of the 20th century. The main emphasis placed to the concept about existence, to the argumentation of the concept about absurd, to the ...
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Procedimientos de humor en Théâtre sans animaux de Jean-Michel Ribes [PDF]
Çédille: Revista de Estudios Franceses, 2015 The aim of this paper is to examine the role of humour in Théâtre sans animaux. Our approach is to define two forms of humour which play on the effects of incoherence: the unusual and the absurd.
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Waiting for Virgilio : reassessing Cuba's teatro del absurdo [PDF]
, 2013 textThis project charts the emergence of the Cuban Theatre of the Absurd, or teatro del absurdo, over the course of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, its suppression by the revolutionary government, and its revival during the "Special Period" of the ...
Bennett, Andrew Ross
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The Royal Commission on the Constitution, 1927–1929
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Royal Commission on the Constitution (1927–1929) is a little‐remembered event in Australian political, policy and legal history, which produced—in the words of the constitutional law scholar Geoffrey Sawer—‘a useful student's textbook and a minor alteration in the Judiciary Act’.
Carolyn Holbrook
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(Non)belonging and (un)freedom
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract This article centers on the concept of “belonging” to argue that belonging and freedom are fundamentally related, and that this relationship cannot be easily captured in formal terms alone. I contend that experiences of incomplete belonging among citizens deserve attention from political science because, in addition to their more obvious ...
Yuna Blajer de la Garza
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American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Arabic phrase Allāhu a‘lam—“God knows best”—is used frequently in everyday Muslim speech and to conclude seemingly assertive statements or fatwas. At its heart lies the recognition that God is the All‐Knowing, whereas humans know next to nothing. Reflecting on this recognition, this essay discusses Sufi refusals of the ethnographic project
Amira Mittermaier
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VSED Should Not Be a Pathway to MAiD (Though Both Are Ethically Permissible)
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent changes in aid in dying laws have led some to argue for a pathway from Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED) to Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD). Proponents point to the Sontag case as demonstrating the efficacy of the practice. This article first provides an overview of the development of the practice of VSED and MAiD and provides
D. B. Davison
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